A roster for the studio, a page for each teacher.

A studio is a place on Palaestral with a roster. Its owner invites the people who teach there and the people who run the desk, and each holds a seat as an owner, a manager or an instructor.

An owner sets the terms: who is on the roster, what the studio keeps of each seat, and the studio's own page. A manager runs the front desk, with the day's schedule, check-in and the register, and sets no terms. An instructor teaches, and sees their own lessons and clients and nobody else's.

What the studio keeps is set for each seat, as a share of what that person sells there. It is taken from the payment the client makes, so nothing is added to their price.

A lower cut applies at once. A higher one waits until the person it comes out of accepts it. Either reaches only what is sold after it, never a sale already made, and a studio keeps nothing until it has connected a Stripe payout account of its own.

Whoever teaches stays the merchant: a client pays them, through Stripe, into their own Stripe account. The studio's share is taken from that payment and paid on to the studio: a lesson's once it has been taught, and a pack's or a membership month's 14 days after it is paid for.

Stripe pays the studio's account out once a month. A refund takes the studio's share back, from its Stripe balance as far as that covers it and from the shares it is owed next after that, and while a studio owes, it is paid nothing new.

Your notes about a client, your lesson plans and your payment records are yours. A studio you teach at sees its own schedule and who is booked into it, and none of those.

Nor is it shown what Palaestral charges you, anything you sell at other places, or who holds a membership with you.

You are one person on Palaestral wherever you teach: one page, one Stripe account, and a seat at each place. Your page lists what you teach at every place, and nothing can book you into two places at once.

A studio can have a page of its own, listing where it teaches and who teaches there, and each lesson taught there names it on your page. A studio sells nothing itself: every lesson is booked on the page of the person who teaches it. Holding seats at two places, you switch between them from the console's header.

• Your page, its name and your own Stripe account, at every place you teach.
• Your notes, lesson plans and payment records, which no studio reads.
• The cut each sale was made at, fixed on it, so a later change never reaches it.

• Getting paid

  Payments go to your own Stripe account, Stripe bills its processing to you, and a refund comes out of your balance on the terms the booking was sold under.

• Cancellation terms

  How much comes back when a client cancels, when you call a lesson off, or when conditions do: the terms you set, copied onto each booking when it is sold.

• Packs, memberships and weekly places

  Three ways to sell more than one lesson: a pack of lessons used as they are booked, a membership charged monthly, and a weekly place kept until it ends.